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Re:Why Won't You Answer My Question? by SilasX on Thursday April 27, 2017 @08:29PM (#14215997)
In fairness, the biggest problems in life are those where something is wrong but you can't clearly define what it is.

Once it reaches the point where the problem has been clearly isolated and the soliton path identified, I usually don't count it as a problem anymore.

Re:Why Won't You Answer My Question? by tambourine_man on Thursday April 27, 2017 @10:26PM (#14216482)
We're reaching metaphysics here, but yeah, it's a good point.
Re:Why Won't You Answer My Question? by jamesrcole on Friday April 28, 2017 @08:40AM (#14218894)
Hardly metaphysics. As if anything that we don't have good language for describing must be metaphysics.

Think of all the progress in science and medicine there's been over the centuries, where we've developed understandings and ways of describing things that we didn't have in the past. The actual things being described always existed, we just didn't understand them or know how to describe them. It's got nothing to do with metaphysics at all. It's about our human limitations.

Speaking from my own experience, I had medical symptoms for over 30 years that I didn't know how to explain. There doesn't seem to be any existing concepts for them.

I have only very recently come to realise that they are probably due to some sort of nerve-related issues -- where this is the reason why they're hard to explain. Something is causing problems with the signals to the brain, so the brain doesn't quite know how to interpret it, which is why you get something indescribable. (or at least that's what seems likely to be going on in my case).